Premier League · 2024/25
Aston Villa
Over 38 matches, Aston Villa create most danger down their left (1.07× the league norm), and concede most down their right (1.11×).
58 scored, 8.4 below xG
51 conceded, 4.0 below xGA
Where the shots come from
Shots taken
every shot, or counted by zoneAston Villa, 2024/25 · final 35m.
vs league average · 1.00 marked · share of xG
Shots taken
every shot, or counted by zoneAston Villa, 2024/25 · final 35m.
vs league average · 1.00 marked · share of xG
Shots faced
every shot, or counted by zoneAston Villa, 2024/25 · final 35m. A further 1% of their shots came from outside this window.
vs league average · 1.00 marked · share of xG
Flanks and routes
Danger conceded by flank
left against right · open play onlyNo meaningful side bias. Aston Villa concede about evenly on both flanks, so neither is worth targeting over the other.
Set pieces are excluded, since a corner has no flank. Sides within ten points of an even split are treated as level, since a season is short enough that smaller gaps are usually noise.
Crosses or through balls
open play onlyAston Villa take 13% of their open-play danger from crosses and 13% from balls played through the middle.
Measured from the action immediately before each shot. This shows whether a side works the ball wide or through the middle; which flank they progress down cannot be derived, because no free source publishes pass locations.
Who does the work
Territory and pressing
1.00 = league averageAston Villa move the ball about as the league does.
- Territory won1.03×
7.5 deep completions a match
- Territory allowed0.90×
6.5 conceded a match
- Pressing0.93×
13.5 opponent passes per defensive action
- Freedom to build0.89×
11.2 of their own passes allowed
- Danger per arrival1.03×
0.217 npxG per deep completion
A deep completion is a pass finished within about twenty yards of goal, and PPDA counts an opponent’s passes per defensive action. A lower figure is a harder press, so the bar inverts it to keep every row reading the same way. This describes where the ball ends up rather than how it travelled: no pass or carry record exists in this data, so progressive passes and carries are genuinely out of reach rather than merely absent.
Share of attacking output
non-penalty xG plus expected assistsAston Villa’s attack is effectively 11.3 players. A side spread across fourteen absorbs an absence that one built on nine does not.
9.5% of their attack is doubtful or out. Lucas Digne, Amadou Onana.
- Ollie Watkins18.2%
- Morgan Rogers14.2%
- Youri Tielemans9.5%
- Marcus Rashford7.8%
- Lucas DigneUnavailable6.7%
- John McGinn6.3%
Share of the squad’s non-penalty xG plus expected assists, so it counts chances taken and chances given alike. Penalties are left out because they describe who the club nominates rather than who creates. Contributors under 2% are not listed, though they still count towards the spread above.
Creator to finisher
shots and xG per pairing- Morgan Rogers→Ollie Watkins3.6 xG19 shots · 3g
- Lucas Digne→Ollie Watkins2.7 xG12 shots · 2g
- Youri Tielemans→Ollie Watkins1.6 xG8 shots · 3g
- Youri Tielemans→Morgan Rogers1.6 xG8 shots · 1g
- John McGinn→Ollie Watkins1.3 xG5 shots · 1g
- Lucas Digne→Jhon Durán1.2 xG4 shots · 1g
- Youri Tielemans→Amadou Onana1.1 xG8 shots · 1g
- Ollie Watkins→Morgan Rogers1.1 xG9 shots · 4g
The pass immediately before the shot, so a player who starts moves without playing the final ball will not appear here. Roughly seven in ten shots name their creator.
How the season splits
Danger by scoreline
leading, level or behindAston Villa produce most of their danger with the game level (47% of their xG).
- Ahead30%
- Level47%
- Behind23%
- Ahead
- 30%
- 19.8 xG · 136 shots
- Level
- 47%
- 31.6 xG · 254 shots
- Behind
- 23%
- 15.7 xG · 94 shots
The scoreline at the moment each shot was struck, rebuilt from goal times. Sides that trail often will look busier in attack than they really are.
Home and away
same team, two recordsAston Villa are a noticeably different side by venue, creating 0.77 xG more per match at home, and conceding 0.93 fewer.
Shots faced and shots stopped
two different jobsAston Villa allow 1.49 xG a match, and concede 2.0 more goals than the league converts that into.
- Chance prevention
- 1.49
- Shot stopping
- -2.0
xG allowed per match. Mostly the outfield shape, and it tends to repeat.
Goals prevented against the league rate. Largely the keeper, and it swings year to year.
Measured against the league’s own conversion rate rather than raw xG. Blocked and off-target shots carry xG that can never be scored, so comparing goals to raw xG would mark every side in the division as leaky. A high block share means bodies in the way rather than chances denied.